We performed a comparison between AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics and others in Mobile APM."The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"The product allows us to build preferred/customized business transactions to track complex transactions. UEM (User Experience Monitoring) agents track user experience on webRequests. The advantage is that Dynatrace correlates the measures on the devices with those on the backend servers, giving us an end-to-end view of the transaction, from the user's phone deep into the backend servers."
"Stability has been very nice, and Dynatrace runs on the Linux system."
"The most valuable feature is, I can quickly go to the PurePath and find the problem in the application. I can say that it provides me a way by which I can quickly find the root cause of the problem."
"They have quick answers for scalability."
"We are now able to identify the root cause in 15 minutes. It has helped the entire operations of our company."
"Dynatrace is capable of following all user actions across all monitored infrastructure, even to systems not monitored, but interconnected."
"Provides more visibility into applications."
"They have a feature that allows you to monitor the user, and we are able to create a VIP customer."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"Cloud monitoring is insufficient. We would prefer Dynatrace to make more partnerships with major cloud applications like Salesforce, C4C, etc."
"The one thing I do not like about Dynatrace is that their web dashboards are very very slow. They seriously have to improve their web dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts."
"It often produces "false alarms" and cannot identify failure patterns over days/weeks that do not indicate concern."
"The integration with PagerDuty is currently broken on mobile."
"Every time we spin up an EC2 instance, we have to slap an agent on it and that is more work. So, if it could go agentless, that would be great."
"Its pricing could be better. Dynatrace has an option to monitor the end users to see what they are doing, but it required a separate license and had an additional cost. It was coming out to be expensive, because of which we didn't use the feature."
"There are some bugs in it. Sometimes things get hung just for second, and you have to refresh something. Also, they aren't necessarily intuitive, but to me, they're just going to get better over time."
"Even if the engine can manage a huge amount of data, requests take time to succeed."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace."
"There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
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